America has a real problem with our colleges. Whether it is due to our flawed education system feeding the colleges with a bunch of wimpy kids, or if it is the colleges themselves encouraging infantile behavior, remains to be seen.
Fox News:
Around the nation, students are turning to the tools of toddlers as a bizarre form of therapy in the wake of Donald Trump's election last week. Colleges and universities are encouraging students to cry, cuddle with puppies and sip hot chocolate to soothe their fragile psyches, an approach some critics say would be funny if it weren't so alarming.
“This is an extreme reaction from millennials who are being forced to come to terms with the fact that we have a president that they don’t like –this is what losing feels like,” Kristin Tate, the 24-year-old author of "Government Gone Wild," told FoxNews.com. “We are grooming our students to be sensitive crybabies when we need to be showing students how to deal with world situations and how to be adults –there are no ‘safe spaces’ in the real world.”
Among the top-notch schools sending devastated students back to their early childhood:
- Cornell University recently hosted a “cry-in,” complete with hot chocolate and tissues for disappointed Hillary Clinton supporters.
- University of Pennsylvania brought in a puppy and a kitten for therapeutic cuddling.
- Tufts University held arts and crafts sessions for students.
- University of Michigan Law School scheduled an event for this Friday called “Post-Election Self-Care With Food and Play” with “stress-busting self-care activities” including coloring, blowing bubbles, sculpting with Play-Doh and “positive card making.”
University of Michigan spokesperson Kim Broekhuizen told FoxNews.com the law school was providing these programs based on requests from the students on campus. But on Thursday, following media scrutiny, the event was scrubbed from the school’s website and replaced with a more age-appropriate discussion of the “limitations of executive power.”It is bad enough that our nation's college students already behave like spoiled brats with their frequent protests/tantrums over nothing. But now our colleges are encouraging this?
That is, when they aren't doing crap like this:
The College Fix:
The Michigan Review notes that a logistics sheet for Wednesday’s 1,000-student walkout at the University of Michigan – to protest the election and “increase in hate crimes and other forms of violence against marginalized folx” – prescribed specific roles for whites in attendance.They even have a video of the protest in question:
Those roles start and end with “police people” and “crowd control/marshals.”
The logistics sheet says that whites end up being quoted “overwhelmingly” when they speak alongside people of color, so anyone white who is approached for an interview should “pass it along to another person of color!”
Note the overwhelming majority of the kids are white, so this isn't even a minority protest. It is a protest of the election results. So why the hating on whites?
Yes folks, that is what it is. We are no longer talking about equal rights any more, and slowly moving into institutionalizing racism against white people. And it is clear that at least some Democrats are complicit in this, since this protest was against what was perceived as "racist" election results, even though there is no proof yet of Trump's alleged racism.
Fortunately, this stupidity run amok is starting to draw a backlash:
The Des Moines Register:
One Iowa lawmaker has a message for any state university that spends taxpayer dollars on grief counseling for students upset at the outcome of last week’s presidential election: “Suck it up, buttercup.”The idea of cutting taxpayer dollars from universities is a good idea by itself. But even though the reason behind this is sound, attaching strings to funding is a slippery slope, which can create bureaucratic nightmares. In addition, aren't there already laws against protesting on highways? That creates a public safety hazard, especially for the protesters. Overall, this bill is an awful idea.
“I’ve seen four or five schools in other states that are establishing ‘cry zones’ where they’re staffed by state grief counselors and kids can come cry out their sensitivity to the election results,” said Rep. Bobby Kaufmann, R-Wilton. “I find this whole hysteria to be incredibly annoying. People have the right to be hysterical … on their own time.”
Kaufmann plans to introduce a piece of legislation he’s calling the “suck it up, buttercup bill” when the Legislature resumes in January.
It would target state universities that use taxpayer dollars to fund election-related sit-ins and grief counseling above and beyond what is normally available to students. Those that do would be subject to a budget cut for double the amount they spend on such activities, Kaufmann said. It also would establish new criminal penalties for protesters who shut down highways, like those who briefly closed Interstate Highway 80 in Iowa City during a protest against President-elect Donald Trump last week.
However, the name of the bill alone is worth the message it sends.
